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India Sleepwalks Into a Surveillance Society
An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid has a fascinating roundup of news stories surrounding the latest surveillance laws passed in India, including a first-hand account of someone writing from inside India. The legislation in question is the Information Technology Act's amendment bill 2006, which was recently passed in the Indian parliament. Things you can't do with the new legislation include surfing for news in Bollywood and looking up porn on the internet. The legislation also allows all transmissions over the internet to be monitored for any form of lawbreaking and permits a sub-inspector to break into your house to make sure you aren't browsing porn on your computer."
Worse yet, it is a re-assertion of religion over state. Do any terrorists not justify their acts in some way through religion?
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Not really. Guys, this is India, the country in which "sodomy" is still illegal and punished by several years in jail.
I can sum your post up in one sentence:
India - A third world slum with a very thin veneer of modern society.
Yes, I've spent months in India, I talk from experience.
Thank you for the explanation. Now I know why there are communist rebels in modern India and why Buddhism was born as a protest movement in ancient India (reminds me of Islam in the Arabian subcontinent). Free and obligatory general education, bottom-up land and labour reforms, local economically sustainable development programs with strict financial controls and crackdown on organized crime and corruption should all contribute as a first steps in alleviating the situation.
Unfortunately for the churches, Jesus knows their evil plans to make people sinners forever, and has already thwarted them. Read in your bible the things they won't teach you in church:
God wants everyone to be saved and to know the whole truth, which is, There is only one God, and Christ Jesus is the only one who can bring us to God. Jesus was truly human, and he gave himself to rescue all of us. -- 1 Timothy 2:4-5
God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them! -- John 3:17
And you gave him power over all people, so that he would give eternal life to everyone you give him. Eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, the one you sent. I have brought glory to you here on earth by doing everything you gave me to do. -- John 17:2-4
Everything and everyone that the Father has given me will come to me, and I won't turn any of them away. I didn't come from heaven to do what I want! I came to do what the Father wants me to do. He sent me, and he wants to make certain that none of the ones he has given me will be lost. Instead, he wants me to raise them to life on the last day. My Father wants everyone who sees the Son to have faith in him and to have eternal life. Then I will raise them to life on the last day. -- John 6:37-40
All people have disobeyed God, and that's why he treats them as prisoners. But he does this, so that he can have mercy on all of them. -- Romans 11:32
If any of you has a hundred sheep, and one of them gets lost, what will you do? Won't you leave the ninety-nine in the field and go look for the lost sheep until you find it? And when you find it, you will be so glad that you will put it on your shoulder and carry it home. Then you will call in your friends and neighbors and say, "Let's celebrate! I've found my lost sheep." Jesus said, "In the same way there is more happiness in heaven because of one sinner who turns to God than over ninety-nine good people who don't need to." -- Luke 15:4-7
A thief comes only to rob, kill, and destroy. I came so that everyone would have life, and have it in its fullest. I am the good shepherd, and the good shepherd gives up his life for his sheep. -- John 10:10-11
This message is repeated in many places in the bible: Jesus will save everybody. It might be that the church propaganda has trapped you into believing that this can't be right. In that case, read the story of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43). Ask yourself, can tares change into wheat if they really really want to? If a tare wants to become wheat, can it ask Jesus into its heart? In fact, Jesus says: "The weed seeds are those who belong to the evil one, and the one who scattered them is the devil." (Matthew 13:38-39) Tares do not change into wheat. Wheat does not change into tares. They are different plants.
Similarly, goats cannot change into sheep, no matter how much they might want to. Sheep cannot change into goats, even if it is their desire. "When the Son of Man comes in his glory with all of his angels, he will sit on his royal throne. The people of all nations will be brought before him, and he will separate them, as shepherds separate their sheep from their goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left." (Matthew 25:31-33) Nobody has ever heard of a sheep turning into a goat, or vice versa. It just doesn't happen.
So if Jesus is going to save all people, who are the goats, who are the tares? Jesus says that the tares look the same as wheat until the harvest time comes. He says that the tares should be left with the wheat until then so as not to disturb the wheat. Jesus said that the tares are the s
Well itâ(TM)s your choice $|_|©|ΣÑ!!! Well can you name a country where there is no disease, poverty, superstition, flies, flies, flies, terrorist attacks. You seems to be living in 18th century. Black Fever(when did u last heard about outbreak of black fever in India). Superstitions- well the Biggest superstition is God(Jesus/Allah/blah...blah...blah is our saviour and will rid us of our sins). Black Plague(When was the last time you heard about outbreak of plague in India -the early 90ies??). Whose F|_|©|!|\|G the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan...and 9/11, Glasgow Attacks, Tube attacks.......list is endless. Famines?? I have never heard about famines in India after Independence.....British were responsible for Famines(due to indiscriminate cultivation of Indigo....and other cash crops rather than food grains) Disease?? Can you name any country which is immune from diseases....We manufacture Medicines 7000times cheaper than in US.... About the news regarding Porn ban......the guy who posted this message is ignorant. Porn was never legal in India. Indian Police is ineffective in terms of cyber policing so, watch porn....Then can never catch you. Those guys don't even have basic computing skills. They are Technically challenged!!!. That's why we call then Thullas(a dumb @$$).
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What a fucking idiot you are. Is that what you learn at the American public school system? No wonder you elected Georgie twice.
Let me give you a few reading tips: go out and search for literature on models of colonization and examine why "America" (or more correctly, the United States, since America is a continent) was founded versus, for instance, what was the aim of the Spanish conquistadores from the Spanish kingdom; next, search for colonialism; read Democracy in America, by De Tocqueville; learn about your civil war and how even in America, those that wanted to keep the yoke of a backwards slave-based economy gave a lot of trouble. Next: imagine that in a country where Her Majesty threw the full weight of Her Empire into crushing the spine of the people - and consider the country had a very different culture than that of the American Revolution - to the point their major resistance leader was one Mahatma Gandhi.
You are so stupid you need to get off /. and get some reading done. Quit with home-grown apple-pie yankee-doodle-dee bottom-line thinking and try to understand the world in more hues than black or white.
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